>>**See also**:
~-MediaWikiComparison
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MediaWiki is a very popular [[PHP]]/MySQL [[Docs:WikiEngine | wiki engine]], whose success comes mainly from projects (like the [[http://en.wikipedia.org | Wikipedia]]) that run on this engine. Because of Wikipedia's success, the majority of users tacitly assume that MediaWiki is the only free PHP engine for running a wiki-site. There is a large number of open source [[http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiEngines | wiki engines]], though, coded in different languages and developed to meet different kinds of need.

MediaWiki is one of the main [[MediaWikiComparison | competitors]] of WikkaWiki.